Assumption Quotes
680 quotes by 563 authors
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I work on the assumption, or let it be the fear, that the reader will stop reading if I stop being interesting.
— Clive James
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The state incurs debts for politics, war, and other higher causes and 'progress'. . . . The assumption is that the future will honour this…
— Jacob Burckhardt
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Most of them have, of course, an agenda; mostly born-again Christians looking to save my soul. I suppose the assumption is made that because I'm…
— Eric Rudolph
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Indeed taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or more variously supported…
— Brooke Westcott
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Most men, if you just tell them what to do in a businesslike fashion, will follow directions without thinking about it. One proceeds on the…
— Lynne Reid Banks
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Writing is an act of hope. It means carving order out of chaos, of challenging one's own beliefs and assumptions, of facing the world with…
— Jack Heffron
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He who dictates and formulates the words and phrases we use, he who is master of the press and radio, is master of the mind.…
— Joost Meerloo
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I try to encourage people to think for themselves, to question standard assumptions... Don't take assumptions for granted. Begin by taking a skeptical attitude toward…
— Noam Chomsky
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Feminism, unlike almost every other social movement, is not a struggle against a distinct oppressor - it's not the ruling class or the occupiers or…
— Kavita Ramdas
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[Americans] think that choice, as seen through the American lens, best fulfills an innate and universal desire for choice in all humans. Unfortunately, these beliefs…
— Sheena Iyengar
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Human capital analysis starts with the assumption that individuals decide on their education, training, medical care, and other additions to knowledge and health by weighing…
— Gary Becker
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We believe that when we choose anything, judge a stranger and even fall in love, we understand the principal factors that influenced us. Very often…
— Leonard Mlodinow
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We all dream; it is a mystery in which all humankind participates. Â I realize this is an assumption, but it is one that I…
— Andrew D. Chumbley
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Some of the roots of role-playing games (RPGs) are grounded in clinical and academic role assumption and role-playing exercises.
— Gary Gygax
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A worldview is a commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions (assumptions…
— James W. Sire
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When you're surrounded by people who share the same set of assumptions as you, you start to think that's reality.
— Emily Levine
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The assumption that Derrida always knows what he is talking about is not Derridean.
— Timothy Morton
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The assumption of Jesus' program for his people on earth was that they would live their lives as his students and co-laborers.
— Dallas Willard
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A basic assumption shapes most Americans’ mindset about labor: the belief that the death of unions isn’t my problem because I’m not in a union.…
— Eric Liu
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People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail…
— Sara Sheridan
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